This has been a crazy week. Last week I went from 175 to 182, and I was not thrilled but it was such an extreme change I figured it was water weight or something. I has been feeling not myself and very bloated and such all week in addition to having an allergic reaction. So I decided to weigh in tuesday, expecting the number to be a little down at least and maybe feel better about the whole thing seeing as my eating and exercise had not warrented a 7 pound gain. But on tuesday my weight was up to 187.6, making me up about 12.5 pounds in about 1 week. I talked to my husband and he suggested I call the doctor because he had noticed my energy level was downand the bloating was obvious to him before he left. He also reminded me that I had mentioned my milk production was decreased about the same time as everything else started. I called the doctor and went in, expecting them to think I was blowing things out of proportion but the doctor seemed pretty conserned. They drew blood and I am waiting on the results and they ordered an ultrasound which was scheduled for this week. I am somewhat concerned and I have WAY to much time to dwell on it and think about it with my husband out of town. So I am pretty happy to see my weight down a little this morning, but I still don't feel like myself and I am super frustrated that all of my hard work during this challenge is gone . . .

Back with the chart later!

Married to the love of my life (career navy), and Mama to 2 amazing little ladies - K~ (03/2009) and M~ (01/2011) always to wish I had gotten to know our little ones lost Reconfiguring my career track and working hard to keep my sanity through it all . . .

I sure was happy when I stepped on the scales today and saw 177.8! I was expecting to have gained weight over the past three weeks with my daughter's wedding activities and not going to the gym. See you @ version 4.0!

Happy to report that I'm back down to 188lbs! I think it's more stress than healthy eating though. I threw my back out again on Friday so I'm not sure if I will be able to keep up my water work out class I've joined. I'll see how I feel on wednesday morning. I'm looking forward to taking a break from worrying about my weight. I'm going to focus on my family and getting strength in my core to help my back. I really appreciate the 25 pound loss I attribute to the accountabiltiy on this and the first two threads. I may join again in ten weeks, we shall see!!!!????!!!!!!!

Ok Ladies, here are the numbers as we stand thus far. First off, con grats to buzzer beater and vermont girl who are our individual leaders at the moment, and to Dantesmama and Dimitrizmom who are nipping at their heels!

I do not have team standings because we are missing 2 weights and we need Milk to make the call on BridesMother, who skipped 2 wiegh ins and then showed back up - normally missing 2 weighins means you are out - So when Milk makes ar call on this I will update the chart appropriately. Right now the teams are standing pretty close, so as soon as we get the rest of the info, we will figure out who won!

Name

Start

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Total Loss

% Loss

Amandamarie

214.2

211.4

213

211.8

211.4

210.6

211

211

211

3.2

1.5%

Amibimama11

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132

131

130

139

130

129

129

129

3

2.3%

BarefootMama99

186.4

183.2

184.0

184.0

178.2

177.0

175.4

182.4

180.6

5.8

3.1%

Buzzer Beater

148

149

147

146

145

145

143

143

139

9

6.1%

BridesMother

181

181.4

179.2

178.4

179.6

178.6

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177.8

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%

dbsam

237

236.2

235.5

238.2

236

235.2

234

232.6

232

5

2.1%

Dantesmama

141

140

138

140.8

136

135.8

134.8

134

133.6

7.4

5.2%

Dmitrizmom

188.2

187.4

187.4

184.6

186.2

186.0

182.4

179.4

178.8

9.4

5.0%

huha

211

211

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206

208

204.5

204

206.5

204

7

3.3%

IsaFrench

165.7

165.5

164

166

165

164

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164

163

2.7

1.6%

lilacvioletiris

238.4

242.8

241

246.2

240.0

243.6

242.6

243.2

239

-0.6

-0.3%

LBCMAX

153.8

151.4

154

154

153.2

153.5

154

152.8

?

%

Milk8shake

170.5

170.9

170.5

169

168.3

168.3

169.4

169.4

169.4

1.1

0.6%

PixieLittle

176.5

176.5

174.5

174.5

173.5

173.5

170

171

169

7.5

4.2%

Ruthiegirl

189

188

187

185

183

183

182

185

182

7

3.7%

SimonMom

168

166.2

164.6

162.2

160.2

157

155

155

?

%

trekkingirl

191.9

188.8

187

189

191

193

188.1

190

188

3.9

2.0%

tropicana

141.6

142

140.8

142.6

144.0

145.6

147

149

148

-6.4

-4.5%

thecoffeebean

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192

189.8

189.8

189.8

193.0

187.8

186.8

186.8

5.2

2.7%

vermontgirl

148

147

145

144

145

143

142

140

139

9

6.1%

Married to the love of my life (career navy), and Mama to 2 amazing little ladies - K~ (03/2009) and M~ (01/2011) always to wish I had gotten to know our little ones lost Reconfiguring my career track and working hard to keep my sanity through it all . . .

BFM - I hope you can let us know the results of your tests soon. I'll be thinking of you. You did quite well, regardless.

Re: Bridesmother, I'm inclined to stick with past rules, and say that we will have to disregard her loss - sorry Mama! If anyone disagrees, please speak up, but I think the two week rule is quite fair.

Well done to everyone else - you are an inspiring bunch, to be sure! Looking forward to the final results!

I had a question and maybe this can be answered for the next challenge- what about those who don't post on Monday and wait until Tuesday to weigh in? If this is within the rules, then fine. :-) If not, perhaps it should be treated as a non-posted week. I was just thinking about how an extra day this week would have given me a 3-lb loss that would have helped the blue team a lot! Hehe, okay, enough obsessing. The important thing is that the pounds are coming off, right?

I'm sorry but I didn't realize that there was a 2 week rule - version 3.0 was my first participation and I don't believe this rule was given. I'm sorry to let the red team down, but thankful for the accountability this group affords. Will do better in version 4.0 as I am retiring as the 'bridesmother' for a few more years or so. See you @ 4.0.

Married to the love of my life (career navy), and Mama to 2 amazing little ladies - K~ (03/2009) and M~ (01/2011) always to wish I had gotten to know our little ones lost Reconfiguring my career track and working hard to keep my sanity through it all . . .

As far as missing weigh ins, I do not count late weights as misses, I only mark you as a missed weight on sunday night, so you literally have all week to post that weight before counting as a miss. (I do very much appreciate timely weigh-ins as they make my life easier, but that is a whole other issue!) The reason we do this is because by missing 2 weigh ins, you have missed 1/4 of the entire competition and the goal is to have people interacting and participating on this. I am pretty sure it was posted on this thread, but I will make sure we get this rule posted on the next thread!!

Re: health issues - I still have not heard back from the doctor and I still feel pretty bad. My ultrasound is in a few days and hopefully I will beable to talk the tech into telling me what they see because I am not going to hold my breath on the doctor calling with that info (military health care at its finest!) I will keep you all posted!

Married to the love of my life (career navy), and Mama to 2 amazing little ladies - K~ (03/2009) and M~ (01/2011) always to wish I had gotten to know our little ones lost Reconfiguring my career track and working hard to keep my sanity through it all . . .

Married to the love of my life (career navy), and Mama to 2 amazing little ladies - K~ (03/2009) and M~ (01/2011) always to wish I had gotten to know our little ones lost Reconfiguring my career track and working hard to keep my sanity through it all . . .